Scientist Examine Asteroid Remains

The article stated Scientist were able to track an asteroid on a collision course with earth, this was a first time phenomena. They watched it exploded in the atmosphere and were able to pick up remnants off the ground. This occured on Oct.5th,2008. Richard Kowalski spotted a white moving dot on his computer at an observatory on Mount Lemmon in Arizona. He sent the cooridinates to his colleagues at the Minor Planet Center at the Havard- Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. They all watched this explosion and was in awe at this sight.